Flooring Saga Completed

You may or may not know that we have had a lot of flooring issues this fall.

It started when I got 100 square feet of engineered hardwood off of Twin Cities Freemarket for the nursery. The floors on the 2F are all rough subfloor, so need some kind of surface over them. In the bathroom, it's tile; in another room, intricately painted; in a third, carpeted. I tried to sand them down to that British honey pine look, but to no avail.

I then put up an ad on CraigsList, trading the 500 square feet of vintage maple flooring I had in the basement for the installation of that and new flooring in the front room. Through that ad, I found incredible handyman Bob Fortner -- if you ever need anyone to work on your renovation project let me know, he's great!

Bob installed the nursery flooring, and cleared out space in our basement by removing the maple (cue new Gorm shelving from Ikea and the beginnings of a basement reorganization that we are still in the throes of).

Then he installed 1000 square feet of berber carpeting on the 3F. We are still tweaking some of that redesign, so more on that later.

This weekend, he installed the 300 square feet or so of Brazillian koa in the front room. We purchased the koa at Lumber Liquidators, and it is gorgeous, if tricky to work with. Now we are excited to get to the rest of the room, though that will wait until post-baby!

In between, our friend Paul installed an incredibly complicated hall light, so we are certainly checking some home improvement projects off the list.